RE: White Pride?
January 3, 2015 at 6:39 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2015 at 6:47 pm by Ryantology.)
(January 3, 2015 at 6:25 pm)JuliaL Wrote: @Ryantology
Thank you for your thoughtful reply.
And I wouldn't kill the poachers if I thought there was an alternative.
But from what I see, humanity, particularly technological western humanity, is so proud of itself being human that it fails to see the needless suffering it is causing in others. Much less does it alter its actions to avoid such suffering. We've expanded into ecosystems across the globe, squeezing out not only our direct competitors, but the thousands of species not considered profitable for humans. Building the American midwest into a mono-culture of GMO corn to make alcohol to burn in SUVs, killing any and everything which gets in our way and feeling righteously justified in the process is obscene. Collectively we fail to see this or we'd be more active in finding alternatives. I advocate family planning in hopes of diminishing population density to a level where we are not obligated to appropriate, kill and eat everything we see. I doubt it will work despite the claims of the demographers that human population will top out in the near future. I'll believe that when I see it. There are too many people who are in love only with people.
And, that's a part of human culture that is faulty and has to change. Personally, I have no problem with GMOs. I think they are a boon if used responsibly. They can help to reduce scarcity. And, I'm excited about the idea of tissue engineering, of 3D printing meat and products like leather or lab-grown fur, so that people can enjoy all of these useful and tasty things that we get from animals, without ever having to harm any (and by reducing the vast environmental damage caused by modern agriculture). And you know there will be people who would be freaked out by the very idea, as a lot are freaked out by GMOs today.
I don't advocate destroying or killing anybody. There are simply a small number of people who have a disproportionate and excessive amount of wealth and power, and that needs to be equalized to a huge extent.
I'm not a communist. I don't believe that everybody deserves to have equal amounts of everything. I think that some jobs require more skill, physical energy, and talent than others. I do think a factory owner deserves to make more money than a factory worker, because they have a larger stake in what is happening. They are investing their money. That's fair enough. I don't think that a factory owner deserves to make more in a day than the worker does in a year. I don't believe that a person has the right to earn a profit if that profit is earned by depriving someone else of their fair share. I think it's fair for a manager to make twice what a worker makes, and an owner to make ten times as much. The owner still lives a life of comfort and luxury in this scenario, but now, so do the workers, who are now healthier, happier, and have the money to do things (and generate economic activity) they could never do before. More economically-empowered workers would naturally lead to more entrepreneurs, selling to a market full of people who have purchasing power. Anybody who tells you that wealth is a zero-sum game is an complete idiot. Be especially careful if they try to sell you gold.
It may seem like I've gone off on a tangent, but as I explained earlier, I have not. Racism is just a tool of the irresponsible rich (and don't waste my time telling me they aren't all irresponsible, because I know this and they aren't the ones I'm talking about) in their war against every lower class, but they will exploit any division they see. You disagree with Creed because you would kill a person to save an elephant, while he would kill an elephant to save a person, but you're fighting the wrong enemy. Would you both not prefer it if poacher never felt the economic necessity to kill the elephant? Join together against the real enemy, because it isn't each other.